Combined handle and receptacle for safety-razor blades.



W. E. O'REILLY. COMBINED HANDLE AND RECEPTACLE FOR SAFETY RAZOR BLADES.

APPLICATION FILED APR-26. 1916.

Patented June 5, 1917.

fnz/eizifan' WILLIAM EDMUND OREILIJY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

ooms'mnn nnnnnn AND nEcnr'rAoLn FOR snrnrr-imzon nnnnnsi To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, WILLIAM EDMUND OREILLY, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing in London, England,*have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Handles and Receptacles for Safety-Razor Blades, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in and relating to safety razors and it refers to razors of the type in which the handle forms a container for the guard, when not in use. The present invention has for its object to provide means whereby a packet, casing or envelop, in which razor blades are sold can be inserted in the handle in such a manner that the blades shall be readily accessible without removing the said packet, casing or envelop. 7

As an example of the application of the invention as applied to a safety razor of the kind forming the subject of British Letters Patent No. 10,189 of 1915, the means for retaining the blades may comprise two members, one a body formed of thin sheet metal of a width adapted to permit it to readily slide within the handle, and the other a paper or other wrapper or packet. Disposed upon one side of the metal body is a slotted member which may conveniently be formed by providing a lug upon the said body, which lug is turned or bent over until it is parallel to but out of contact with the inner surface of the body. The slotted member is designed to engage and retain the paper or other packet or wrapper containin the spare razor blades. 1

- In order that the invention may be the better understood drawings are appended in which Figure 1 is a front view of the holderpartly inserted in the handle of the razor.

Fig. 2 is a side view of said holder removed from the handle. I

Fig 3 is a plan of a packet or wrapper for the blades.

Fig. 4 is a plan of an alternative form of packet or wrapper for the blades to that shown in Fig. 8.

Fig. 5 is a side-'view showing the handle with the closure thereof and the holder for the blades together with the guard partly inserted in the h ndle.

Fig 6 is a si e View in central longitudinal sectionof the entire device in closed po- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 5,1917.

Application filed April 26, 1916. Serial No. 93,601.

sition showing the blades inclosed in the pacl iets in the handle.

F1g. 7 is an end view in central horizontal section" of the form of paoket shown in Fig. 3, and

Fig. 8 is a like view of the form of packet shown in Fig. 4.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

a indicates the handle provided at the lower p o end with guide ways a by which the guard b, Fig. 5, when in use is positioned, and retained upon said handle as described in the aforesaid application. for British Letters Patent No. 10,189 of 1915. The refer. ence character a indicates the closure formed of thin sheet metal, which has formed integral therewith on one side thereof a lug 0 turned or bent over into a plane' parallel with the plane of the body 0. The lug 0 is slotted'at 0 said slot being designed to engage a tongue or projection upon the paper or other packet or wrapper in which the blades are placed. Two forms ofpacket orwrapper are shown: That illustrated in Fig. 3 consists of an outer portion or cover 03, with a number of leaves 0 attached thereto, between which the blades are placed, the said leaves being provided with flaps c at their upper, lower and outer edges, designed to be turned or folded down so that the blades are entirely enveloped and securely retained. In the alternative form of wrapper shown in Fig. 4 the blades are contained in individual envelops 6 separate from the outer portion or cover 6 which outer portion is provided with flaps f, f and 6 designed to be turned or folded over the said envelops and so to inclose them. In both of these forms of wrapper a tongue is provided at g, which, serves the double purpose (1) when the wrapper is not attached to the holder, of engaging the slot 9 cut in the wrapper and so forming a closure which renders the wrapper a closed attached to the closure a the guard I) being placed between them as shown in Fig. 5, and

' resting upon the packet of spare blades.

The lower end of the body acts to retain the guard so that whenthe body a is placed in or pulled out of the handle the said guard moves with it. If desired in order to prevent. the entire removal of the body 0 from the handle I may provide stops engaging the lower projection on the said body. These stops may conveniently be formed by indenting the side walls of the handle as shown at h, in Figs. 1 to 5.

When it is desired to use the razor the closure is removed and forms a means whereby the body 0 is drawn out, when the guard b may be removed and fixed in posi-. tion upon the opposite end of the handle. Should it be desired to substitute a new blade the wrapper may be readily opened without removing it from the body 0. The

an envelop for spare blades having means thereon for attaching itto the member slidable within the handle; and attaching means upon the said slidable member cooperating with the like means upon the envelop.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a hollow handle, of a closure for-the handle; a member attached to the closure and slidable within the handle; a lug upon one side of said member having a slot; an envelop for spare blades; and means upon said envelop engaging said slotted lug to secure the envelop thereto.

, 3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a hollow handle; of a closure for the handle; a member attached to the closure and slidable within the handle; a projection at the lower end of the slidable member; a lug at one side of said member having a slot; projections adjacent the open end of the handle, engaging the projection on the slidable member within the handle to prevent its withdrawal therefrom; an envelop for spare blades; and means upon said envelop engaging the slotted-lug to secure the envelop thereto. I

4. In a device of the class described, the combination with a 'hollow handle; of a closure for the handle; a member attached to the closure and slidable within the handle; and an envelop for spare blades having means thereon for attaching it to the.

member slidable within the handle in such a manner that it can be opened and closed without being detached therefrom.

' In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of the two under-' signed witnesses.

WILLIAM EDMUND OREILLY.'

Witnesses:

H. BOYLE, H. B. WARNER. 

